A Study Of The Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp In The United States During World War Ii

After the outbreak of the Pacific War,the U.S.government forcibly relocated more than 110,000 Japanese-American immigrants living along the West Coast to the interior for the purpose of maintaining the so-called military security on the West Coast,and scattered them in the internment camps built by the U.S.government to concentrate and control Japanese-Americans during the war.Of these,more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were relocated by the government to the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp.Firstly,this thesis introduces the U.S.government’s policy of centralized control of Japanese Americans,focusing on the historical development of the Manzanar“Reception center”,the establishment of the War Relocation Authority,and the formal establishment of the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp.Secondly,it examines the operation of the Manzanar internment camp for the Japanese,focusing on the basic living conditions,employment and education opportunities,security management,and the community activities and political life in which the Japanese were able to participate in the context of the government’s management of their lives.Then it introduces the major management crisis in the internment camps,using the “Manzanar Riot” as an example,analyzes the underlying causes of the riots and the implications for the government’s segregation policy,and discusses the basic status of the registration program and segregation policy in the internment camps.Thirdly,it describes the final outcome of the closure of the Manzanar Japanese internment camp and the general circumstances of the departure of the Japanese from Manzanar,focusing on the initiatives taken by the U.S.government to bring the Japanese back into public society.Finally,it analyzes the profound impact of the Manzanar internment camp on Japanese immigrants in terms of property,psychology,and American identity,and provides evidence of the heavy economic burden of the camp’s establishment on the government and the public resentment it generated among the Japanese population.The Manzanar Japanese internment camp not only meant the loss of many pre-war assets for the Japanese Americans who had been interned there,but also left unhealed psychological wounds in the minds of some of them.Although the internment camp passively promoted Japanese American identity,but,the creation of the camp themselves placed an unnecessary financial burden on the government’s coffers and created public discontent among the Japanese population,leading to a number of Japanese Americans leaving the United States for Japan after the war,many of whom even held U.S.citizenship.